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- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
taught many of our alums, Professor Clay Christensen, member of the MBA class of 1979, and a 1992 DBA grad. In addition to his teaching, Professor Christensen has written several influential business books, including The Innovator's Dilemma, which introduces the theory... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
announced as the 2001 conference site. After two days packed with dynamic breakout sessions and inspiring keynote addresses by HBS faculty and some of the world's leading business executives, however, no one was laughing. The conference, "Leading in a View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise
internet and has such a big audience.” “I have a pretty optimistic personality, which has led me to do two turnarounds, like AOL and Time, Inc. were both seriously disrupted businesses.” “We [started] with advertising because it Reddit... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
fitness. So mindfulness, again from some of the research, they say that the happiest person in the world is someone who meditates a lot. You do see real changes in the way that the brain functions with meditation over time. And something... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Wingspanbank's advertising campaign tapped). "Sometimes a new technology is so disruptive that the normal organization mechanisms are not adequate to get the change through fast enough," says McFarlan,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
to do education strategy or operations. How will online learning change the education establishment? Stephan Liozu, PhD (TGMP 15, 2005) @StephanLiozu: Disruption in educational market will require... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
In the years after Keith Ferrazzi (MBA 1992) published Never Eat Alone, he confessed some reluctance in being labeled “the networking guy.” “But 20 years after writing that first book, and after coaching thousands of teams, I’ve finally recognized there’s a... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- News
“Raise the Line”
transforming healthcare training, and what his company is doing to help “raise the line” right now. —April White HBS: How is COVID-19 changing the demand for online health education? Gaglani: I gave a TEDx talk last year that was all... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
establish a third K–12 school, or instead create a university? By the time she finished the OPM program in 2001, however, a major problem had disrupted Deza’s thinking: her husband’s business had gone bankrupt and the family had to shed... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
as they struggled to understand why the protagonists acted as they did, they might soon be getting the answer firsthand. Consistently, Sahlman tried to focus on what he calls the “fomenting attack”—that is, the agent of change that was... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
get ahead of these business model disrupters and be the change yourself? For more in-depth data on the music streaming sector from Statista, see eBaker, our online research portal for alumni. View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
and Keep Customers in the Age of Disruption By Steve Dennis (MBA 1984) LifeTree Physical retail isn’t dead—but boring retail is. Remarkable Retail equips the savvy retailer with eight strategies to bounce back from the COVID-19 downturn... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
research fellow at Professor Clay Christensen’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, thinks that the smaller, scrappier Chinese automakers may turn out to be the true disruptive innovators of the global EV market. By manufacturing inexpensive... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
So big picture, how have you seen the environment change for parents in the workplace in that time? Stephen Kramer: The quick answer to how things have changed for working parents is that on the one hand,... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
from molds. It was also dependent on tariffs and benefited from disruptions caused by European wars: The first half of the 20th century offered plenty of both. By the 1940s, Westmoreland had moved away from high-quality, hand-decorated,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a new... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
interview, we catch up with the group for another update. Not surprisingly, much has changed over the past decade in their households and in their careers. In the profiles that follow, our protagonists once again candidly discuss how they... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
time. White: Is there a common thread that runs through all of the projects that you have worked on? Tai: I'm very drawn to disruptive technology that could have broad impact. I think because I was trained originally, as technologist,... View Details